Definition of Genus pterocles

1. Noun. Type genus of the Pteroclididae.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Pterocles

genus Psithyrus
genus Psittacosaurus
genus Psittacula
genus Psittacus
genus Psophia
genus Psophocarpus
genus Psoralea
genus Psychopsis
genus Psychotria
genus Pteretis
genus Pteridium
genus Pteris
genus Pternohyla
genus Pterocarpus
genus Pterocarya
genus Pterocles
genus Pterocnemia
genus Pterodactylus
genus Pterois
genus Pteropogon
genus Pteropus
genus Pterostylis
genus Ptilocercus
genus Ptilocrinus
genus Ptilonorhynchus
genus Ptloris
genus Ptyas
genus Ptychozoon
genus Puccinia

Literary usage of Genus pterocles

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"Both species occur in Asia, but occasionally migrate into Europe, even as far as England, in great numbers. The genus Pterocles contains the four-toed forms ..."

2. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker (1889)
"... and the Pigeons (Columbi the first-named family a species of the type genus Pterocles 1 described from the Allier Miocene. ..."

3. Birds by Eugene William Oates, William Thomas Blanford (1889)
"Genus PTEROCLES, Temm., 1815. Bill small, arched above ; nostrils elongate, basal, almost covered by frontal plumes ; wings long and pointed ; tail moderate ..."

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